Of all the heirs to Homer Stryker's medical device fortune, Ronda Stryker is wealthiest. The family heiress has been in the news lately for the $100 million secret donation she made three years ago to Western Michigan University to create a new medical school.
Gina Rinehart: $43.17 billion
With a net worth of an excruciating $43 billion, Rinehart is not only the richest woman in Australia - by a large margin - she is also the eighth-richest woman in the world and among the wealthiest humans alive.
The highest-paid doctors in the US are in surgical specialties such as plastic surgery, orthopedic surgery, or cardiology and report earning over $500,000 per year on average.
1. Gina Rinehart, $37.41 billion (up $3.39 billion) Another year, another Rich List crowning Gina Rinehart as Australia's wealthiest person. 2023 marks the fourth consecutive year the mining magnate has held that mantle.
Bettencourt Meyers' rise to the world's richest woman did not come without turmoil–most notably a French scandal around a sensational trial involving billions of dollars that led to a publicly turbulent mother-daughter rift.
Francoise Bettencourt Meyers of France is the richest woman in the world, ranked No. 9 on Forbes' list of billionaires.
Walton Family
The Walton family knows its way around some retail revenue. Its namesake, mega-retailer Walmart, has an estimated global revenue of $611.3 billion. As the family owns nearly half of the company, they should be quite comfortable for generations to come.
1. Princess Charlotte of Cambridge: $5 billion. Princess Charlotte of Wales is one of the richest kids in the world, with a net worth of $5 billion (£3.85 billion). She is the second child of Prince William and Catherine, the Duke and the Duchess of Cambridge.
The valuations of Gina Rinehart ($37.41 billion) and Andrew Forrest ($33.29 billion), the richest and second-richest Australians for the fourth year in a row, surged 10 per cent and 8 per cent respectively as listed-market analysts re-rated their outlook for red Pilbara dirt.
1. Gina Rinehart. Mining magnate Gina Rinehart is Australia's richest woman with an estimated $36.7 billion fortune.
Billionaire, businessman and the chairman and chief executive of LVMH (LVMUY), Bernard Arnault holds the crown as the richest person in the world. According to Forbes, Arnault has a fortune of $234.5 billion.
The same year, Julia Koch entered the list after the death of her husband, David Koch - one of the four sons of Koch Industries founder Fred C. Koch. With a net worth of $55 billion, she is currently the third richest women in the world.
Australia is considered a wealthy nation with a market-based economy that has a comparatively high gross domestic product and per capita income. Its economy is driven by the service sector and the export of commodities. [Explore the top universities in Australia.]
Forbes' real-time data shows that as of June 2023, there are 47 Australian billionaires on the list of the world's richest people.
Vivek Chaand Sehgal (born 1 February 1957) is an Indian-Australian billionaire businessman and entrepreneur. Sehgal is the chairman and co-founder of Samvardhana Motherson Group, an auto parts manufacturer.
Annual gross salaries of specialists (2020)
In addition to Luxembourg, there are four other countries where specialists were paid more than €150,000 in 2020. They are Ireland (€172,882), the Netherlands (€160,869), Denmark (€156,061), and Iceland (€155,276). Germany (€146,200) and the UK (€136,375) followed closely.
Surgical specialities tend to yield the highest pay, while pediatricians typically take home the least, according to a recent report from Doximity. The networking service for medical professionals has released its 2023 Physician Compensation Report, tracking trends in physician pay nationwide.